13P/Olbers 2024-May-03 Dan Bartlett

Morphological study of 13P/Olbers April 28 thru May 3 2024 PDT
Power outage while saving PixInsight caused a corruption of data, henceforth forcing me to abandon the week's long worth of work. Salvageable was a PI window showing the comet aligned debayered stacked starless images for a succession of six nights. Although far from complete, each subpanel showed the changes in morphological structure that 13P/ Olbers portrayed for the night. Basically each panel spans an imaging period of around 30 minutes repeating every 24 hours. Seeing conditions varied with Apr 28 and May 3rd being poor and other days being average. 13P/ Olbers was imaged at a maximum altitude of 19 degrees, at the start imaging lowering to 11 degrees when imaging completed. Transparency was fair to good with twilight hindering the commencement of imaging. Similar frames were made of ~40 x 30 secs with May 2 having a combination of 30sec and 60 secs frames (due to the better seeing). All sub panels of each nights combination are at 1/6 the native 1.05"/pix scale. Images were shot using a C14 F/2 HyperStar with an asi 2600mcP camera from June Lake California USA. Nights are local time meaning +1 for UT date.
Eventually I may revisit the data and reprocess. IDK
Dan